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TABLE OF CONTENTS<br />
DEDICATION................................................................................................................... ii<br />
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ............................................................................................ iii<br />
List of Figures ................................................................................................................... ix<br />
List of Table ................................................................................................................... xvii<br />
List of Appendices ........................................................................................................ xviii<br />
ABSTRACT .................................................................................................................... xix<br />
Chapter 1 Introduction to solution processed organic solar cells ................................ 1<br />
1.1 Principles of organic solar cells .............................................................................. 2<br />
1.2 Device architectures of organic solar cells ............................................................. 3<br />
1.3 Characteristics of organic solar cells ........................................................................ 8<br />
1.4 Recent research progress of solution processed bulk HJ solar cells ..................... 13<br />
1.4.1 Recent research progress of polymer bulk HJ solar cells ................................ 13<br />
1.4.2 Recent research progress of small molecule bulk HJ solar cells ..................... 14<br />
1.5 Thesis overview .................................................................................................... 19<br />
References ..................................................................................................................... 23<br />
Chapter 2 Solution processed squaraine bulk heterojunction photovoltaic cells ..... 27<br />
2.1 Introduction to bulk heterojunction solar cells ....................................................... 27<br />
2.2 Cell series resistance ............................................................................................... 28<br />
2.3 Properties of pure squaraine and mixed squaraine:PC 70 BM thin films .................. 30<br />
2.3.1 Crystal structure of squaraine material ............................................................ 30<br />
2.3.2 Optical absorption of squaraine and squaraine:PC 70 BM blend films .............. 31<br />
2.3.3 Charge carrier mobilities .................................................................................. 33<br />
2.3.4 Surface morphology ......................................................................................... 34<br />
2.4 Squaraine/C 60 control and squaraine:PC 70 BM bulk solar cells ............................... 36<br />
2.5 Discussion ............................................................................................................... 42<br />
2.6 Summary ................................................................................................................. 46<br />
References ..................................................................................................................... 48<br />
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